Comment on Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
GPU shortage of 2018
Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions
NFT craze
And now Altman’s bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driver enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produced slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?
Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won’t complain, and if their shit breaks they’ll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.
Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I’m genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.
despoticruin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
If all you want to do is learn how they work then you should stop pining for new hardware. Go learn on an old AM3 or LGA 1155 system, stuff generally works the same.